Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-21
Ordinance No. 147.
Published July 81, 1851

AN ORDINANCE to prohibit the sale of intoxi
eating liquors rs beverage in the city Of Dodge
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen Of
the city Of Dodge City, Kansas:
directly or indirectly sell, barter or give away
any spurious. malt, vineOus, fermented or other
intoxicating liquors within the corporate limits Of
the city Of Dodge City, Kansas, without first hav.
ing procured druggists permit therefor from the
Probate Judge of Ford county, Kansas, according
to the laws Of Kansas, shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall
be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars.
PROVIDED HOWEVER, That such liquors may be
sold within said city for medical. scientific and
mechanical purposes, as provided by the laws Of
SEC. II. All liquors mentioned in Section one
of this Ordinance, and all other liquors or mixtures
thereof by whatever name called that will produce
intoxication, shall be considered and held to be
Ordinance.
SEC. III. 1t shall be the duty of the Marshal,
Assistant Marshal and policemen having notice
knowledge of any violations Of any Of the pro-
visions of this Ordinance, to at once notify the
city attorney of the fact of such violation and
furnish him the names Of any witnesses within his
knowledge by whom such violation can be prov
en-, who will cause such person or persons to be
brought before the Police Court and dealt with
according to the provisions of this Ordinance.
SEC. ~. Any person or persons who shall be
the keeper or inmate OF any place where intOxi-
eating liquors are sold, bartered given away az
beverage,O or where persons are permitted to re-
sort for the purpose Of drinking intoxicating iq.
uors as a beverage within the corporate limits Of
the city of Dodge City, Kansas, shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than
ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
SEC. V. Every person within the limits Of the
city of Dodge City, Kansas, who shall, directly or
indirectly keep or maintain by himself or by as
sociating or combining with others, who shall
in any manner aid, assist, or abet in keeping or
maintaining, any club room, or other place in
which any intoxicating liquors is received or kept
for the purpose Of use, gift, barter or sale as
beverage, or for distribution or division among the
members Of any club or association by any name
whatever and every person who shall use, barter,
sell or give away, or assist, or abet another in
bartering, selling or giving away, any Intoxicating
liquors SO received or kept, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof,
shall be fined in any not less than ten dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars.
SEC vi. The giving away Of intoxicating liqu-
ors any shift device to evade the provisions
of this Ordinance, shall be deemed violation of
this Ordinance and punished according to Section
one of this Ordinance.
eating liquors to any minor, by any person, other
than the father, mother or guardian Of such minor
or physician for medical purposes. shall be un-
s the dtS Of
City, Kansas, shall be deemed guilty of misde;
meanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined
in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more
than one hundred dollars.
SEC. VIII Any physician WHO'S lawfully and
regularly engaged in the practice of his profession
business within the limits of the city of Dodge
City, and who, in case Of actual need, shall deem
any of the liquors mentioned in this ordinance
necessary for the health of hs patients, may give
such patient a written prin ed prescription
therefor, or may administer the same himself
but no such prescription shall be given, liquors
administered, except in case of actual need, and
where in his Judgment the use Of intoxicating
liquors is necessary And every physician who shall
give such prescription or administer such liquors
in violation OF this ordinance and every physician
who shall give to or write for any person q pre-
scrption for intoxicating liquors, for the purpoes
of enabling or assisting any person to evade any
Of the provisions Of this ordinance for the pur-
pose of enabling or assisting any person to obtain
any intoxicating liquors for use abeverageO to
be sold or disposed of in any manner in violation
of the provisions of this ordinance, shall be deem
ed guilty of misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in any sum not les than ten
dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
Sec. TX. In prosecutions under this ordinance
1t shall not be necessary to state the kind of
liquor sold, and shall not be necessary to describe
the place where sold, and shall not be necessary
to state the name of the person to whom sold and
it shall not be necessary In the first instance for
the city to prove that the party charged did not
have permit to sell intoxicating liquors for the
purpose excepted by the laws Of the State of Kan
sas.
SEC This ordinance shall take effect and be
in force on and after its publication once in the
Dodge City TINES
Passed the council July IL, 1887.
IAf- Attest GEO. F. JONES, Mayor.
CITY Clerk